The vast world full of different cultures, languages, and ethnicities has become one small world with the internet and easy access to travel. I’m a first-generation Palestinian Canadian Muslim raising two children and trying every day to preserve our native language, Arabic.
Growing up in Canada as a child of immigrants, I and many others like me were expected to speak English as my native language. In my early years, I spoke the Urdu language – my mother tongue.
Educators and researchers who study play consider the phenomenon of schematic play very important and often misunderstood. The concept of schema - a pattern of repeated actions that help us understand how things work - is more simply explained as how humans organize knowledge.
The benefits of imaginative play in children’s physical, psychological, and emotional development have been well researched and documented, especially in the last 75 years according to Psychology Today.